hdv@gmail wrote: > On 2021-12-08 15:27, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote: > > Hi everyone! I have a Dell Inspiron 5570 laptop with 1TB HDD and 16 GiB > > RAM (it supports 32 GiB). I am about to buy an M.2 NVMe 250GB SSD---a > Regarding the swap space: I wouldn't make it so big. That really isn't > necessary. I have a 64GB RAM system here, on which I have 2GB of swap. I > doubt I have ever seen conky show me more than 35% use. And I am quite a > heavy user of system resources (much 3D CAD editing, photo editing, video > editing and rendering, and often multiple VM's in use). > > My laptop has 32GB of RAM and 2 GB of swap and on that system I haven't seen > much swapping either.
Swap is where a laptop stores RAM during suspend-to-disk, the long term hibernation suspension. Without at least as much swap as RAM, you are limited to suspend-to-RAM. In a more perfect world, the space for suspension would not otherwise be treated as swap space. -dsr-
